“Scoutish” Highland Games

The weekend of October 13-15, 2023 members of Troop 148 participated in the Westside Fall Camporee, an annual event that frequently changes location with varying themes from year to year. In Fall 2023, the 343rd Mackenzie Clan (aka Troop 343), invited the clans of the Wapehani and White River Trails Districts of the Hoosier Trails Council of Scouts BSA to Camp Indicoso, a scout camp sitting on 186 acres of rolling hills and trees in Springville, Indiana, for the first ever “Scoutish” Highland Games! Clans who attended learned some Scottish songs and dance steps, spun some Scottish yarns about their clans, participated in traditional Scotting games (including the Caber Toss, the Braemer Stone Put, the Battle Hammer Toss, the Farmer’s Walk, the Battle Ax Throw, the Kilted Run, a Tug-O-War, Golf, and the Clanmaster’s Challenge…aka the Scoutmaster’s Challenge!), in addition to enjoying a performance of Rabbie Burns’s poem Address to a Haggis, learning more about some famous Scots throughout history.